In have responded to student request, Sacred Heart University in Farifield is adding a master of public health program with a come 2018 open -- and planned administrator Anna Greer couldn't be more satisfied .
" I'm particularly aroused about it ," told Greer, an associate professor at Sacred Heart since 2011 and lead of the undergraduate platform head in effort discipline." We have a growing number of students who are interested in going a graduate degree in public health, but they've been going to other class to do so ."
In addition to the field of exert discipline or kinesiology, students following the master's degree in public health will be introduced to public health assumptions, program planning, parish state growing, subsidy writing, epidemiology and biostatistics, state organisation and moralities, according to Greer. The 48 -credit curriculum can be completed in two years by full-time both students and is too open to part-time students .
Adding such graduate platforms at SHU implies a multistage proposition process that includes vetting by module across a number of methods , not all related to health sciences .
" The one question that is frequently invited is,' What is the need for a programme designed ?'" Greer replied." We look to see if there's a breach in what we already furnish and be determined whether enough beings are interested in it. The university has been very successful at filling those desires ."
Having received the university's approval, the masters' curriculum now must be accredited by the Council on Education for Public Health, an independent bureau recognized by the U.S. Department of Education to accredit schools of public health and public health curricula outside schools of public health. Sacred Heart will submit an application to begin that process abruptly, Greer alleged .
Candidates for the grad program must have a bachelor's degree in any major from a four-year accredited university with a cumulative grade point average of 3.0 or higher. Additionally, they must have earned a C grade or highest in college-level pre-calculus, statistics and sociology or psychology .
" I want to build a program that facilitates the development of other qualified public health professionals committed to and agitated about improving parish state ," said Greer. She estimated that the initial class will include 15 to 20 students, and said the search for three core faculty members should be underway by this precipitate .